Are the Temperature Sensors Based on Chalcogenide Glass Possible?

Abstract:

Principal possibility of the using of chalcogenide glasses (on the example of Ge₁₈As₁₈Se₆₄) as active media for temperature sensors is considered in this work. Differential scanning calorimetry testing of the investigated glasses shown that 2 years of natural storage does not lead to the drift of their DSC-parameters (glass transition temperature and endothermic peak area). Investigation of the temperature dependence of optical transmission spectra shows the linear character of optical band-gap changes with a temperature. Temperature sensitivity index β for Ge₁₈As₁₈Se₆₄ is estimated to be equal to the ~1.2·10^-3 eV/°C.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 200)
• Pages: 316-320
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.200.316
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Mykhaylo Shpotyuk, Dmytro Chalyy, Oleh Shpotyuk, Mihail Iovu, Andrzej Kozdras, Sergii B. Ubizskii
• Keywords: Chalcogenide Glasses, Optical Band-Gap, Optical Spectroscopy, Temperature Sensor

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